Thinking outside the box for TV punditry

For those of us who have kept a close eye, over the years, on the much-maligned industry of football punditry, this was a gratifying week. A week that almost certainly brought us closer to the day when a great football manager, a man such as Alex Ferguson perhaps, will be asked the key question we have waited for all our lives.

Yes, but can he do it in punditry?

We have seen many great football managers, and a handful of great pundits, yet somehow these vital professions rank far apart in esteem.